“However, luckily for her, her window was open and she offered him five shillings to climb up into her flat using his ladder and open the door (south Palmerston Street, I think it was) for her, to which he did.

“He declined the five shillings and went back to cleaning his windows.

“Two days later he was at the top end of the street, up his ladder, when someone started kicking his ladder and shouted to him to come down.

“Yes,you guessed it, it was a policeman who asked my dad if he had climbed through the window, to which he asked what the problem was as he was only helping her out?

“To his shock, the policeman told him the lady had left her husband a month earlier, and that when he got back home from work, he found that she had emptied the said property!

“Thankfully nothing came of it that I know of.”

Mr Spour jnr goes on to reveal that his father lived at 27 South Frederick Street, above Moore’s grocery store, opposite Halls shoe shop, and was one of 11 children.

“That was him walking across New Green Street in an earlier edition you published. Being a window cleaner he was, of course, the one carrying a ladder!”

Being a window cleaner, you must see lots of sights and hear lots of tales. If you used to be a window cleaner, what are the funny or unusual stories that spring to mind? Please get in touch with your window cleaning memories.

Talking of Frederick Street, a lot of you who took to Facebook to talk about Frederick Street, mentioned Olsen’s pet shop, and, in particular, an “evil” parrot and monkey that used to reside there.

Mark Shotton, a former employee, says he remembers them both, saying: “Yeah, but not when George had the monkey.

“He had Michael the parrot when I worked there but someone broke in and pinched all his parrots and the macaw parrot Michael.

“George is a lovely guy, and he always looked after the animals when I worked there.”

So the parrot was called Michael, goodness knows what the monkey was called.

There’s a one down the road called H’Angus, a football club mascot. Can you guess where he hangs out?

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